“Steve Jobs would have immediately fired anyone for suggesting such sacrilege, but current Apple CEO Tim Cook may have have other ideas,” Mark Reschke writes for T-GAAP. “As the state of California continues on a path toward bankruptcy, the California legislature is desperate to increase revenues. Their plan has been to raise taxes, which has driven California companies to change locations in search of friendlier business environments. In addition, having a world campus located along a major fault line is no bonus either, nor is the traffic, nor the amazingly high salaries tech companies must pay to obtain — and retain — great talent in silicon valley.”

“Texas sits on the other end of the spectrum from California. The Government is stable and flush with cash, tax rates are much lower, and the cost of living is relatively cheap when compared to California,” Reschke writes. “Apple’s operating costs in Texas would run tens of millions less than continuing to operate a its headquarters in Cupertino. And that is not a one time cost savings but would occur year after year.”

Reschke writes, “Watch how the Spaceship campus in Cupertino progresses (or perhaps does not progress) and at the same time how Apple’ Austin campus continues to grow. Over the next few years Apple’s direction may be more than just an opportunistic idea.”

Ever notice the shape and design of that Campus? Once built, Apple has the option to move without notice. Gather all your employees, Lift-off, and land anywhere Tim Cook decides. It is called a Spaceship- is there another option?

Next stop, Alpha Centauri. Hope the locals aren’t as belligerent and twisted as the previous lot. Pearls before swine, I expect. Blarrgh, order all personnel to put blasters on incinerate, in case we run into more of the same on the next sorry planet.

I watch about 3 hours of Fox News a week (Bret Baier). I watch much more ABC and CBS. There is your first mistake.

Second, your article has nothing to do with my point. There are poor people in all states. My point is that much of the federal aid goes to heavily Democratic controlled areas in the South. Do you assume just because a state is ‘red’ in Presidential elections it is run by Republicans? Until recently, Arkansas had mostly Democrats representing it on the federal level and a small number of Republicans on the local. It still has a Democrat governor (who I voted for), but it almost always votes Republican in the Presidential elections. Since 2008, it has swung to mostly Republican for Congress.

Now if you want to go into a discussion on WHY most of the poor and minorities vote Democrat (but a lower percent of poor Whites) then fine, have at it.

Every Southern state is currently cursed with a RepubliCON assembly in whole or part because poor white southerners living in trailers think of themselves as RepubliCONs ever since the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts.

These are the geniuses that are on Medicare and Social Security that stood up at town hall meetings ranting about how they didn’t want government provided health insurance.

Federal funding comes from all the states, that’s the point…it’s OUR money that the federal government uses to extort and blackmail states into policies the states would never approve. Spare me your Dukes Of Hazzard Economic Theories, according to my calendar the Civil War ended in 1865.

The hypocritical attitude of the south is astonishing. Sates like Mississippi get back better than $2.50 per dollar sent to Washington and then elect RepibliCONs that rant about welfare, waste and pulling oneself up by the bootstrap.

States like California get back more than 1/3rd less than they send in from a huge base- about 10% of the US population and get ragged on by the welfare states of the south.

As to the Civil War, I have lived in the North, South & West and it is the South that still hasn’t gotten over the ass whipping the Rebels got.

Who is their right mind would move from California to Texas? Our state is so much more beautiful than that backwater, scrub brush, cowpie of a state of Texas. Not to mention they have the fattest people on the planet. No wonder that state needs to be so big, so you can fit everybody. And 90% of Apple employees wouldn’t go, no way in hell.

You see, the Oracle hears all, knows much, and can complete your sentences for you.

The one thing the Oracle regrets is the baleful effect of unremitting anonymous, visceral, divisive political screeds. People unfulfilled in certain ways have learned to compensate through the ad hoc therapy afforded by forums like this. In so doing, however, they risk traumatizing or enraging others who are unaware of involuntary participation in a therapy program for someone they’ve never met. Apparently, they ignore or minimise these risks by dehumanizing others, easily done when staring at a forest of letters and word, on a computer screen, rather than into the eyes of someone with equal intellect but different ideas.

I’m not sure why any worldwide major corporation would continue to have a large number of employees in California.

California is a great state, however, its one of the most difficult and expensive states to have employees. With a super majority of democrats in Sacramento we will like see more stories like this from other companies.

Time for The True Northern California discuss again about separating it self from crazy Sacramento, the bay area, all the rest of the crazies down south. Lots of companies have already left California and more are leaving everyday. People are also leaving to save on taxes. We will be stuck with all the liberal socialist idiots and/or pot heads. God help us.

All the denigrating clinches and stereotypes aside — Austin is a sunny college town with an educated workforce, hip Sixth Street historic/entertainment district, authentic Tex-Mex and southern cuisine, favorable tax rates, lower cost of living compared to Infinite Loop burbs and the state is business friendly.